Geoffrey Marx collection

Identifier
WL2220
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 151815
Level of Description
Collection
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Marika Rotter (née Szuecs) was born in Gyor Hungary in 1915, and later studied Art in Vienna. She went on to work in fashion design, including running her own business making belts and accessories. Her first husband was Ernst Lӧw-Beer, a Czech industrialist from Brno, with whom she escaped to England and divorced soon after. Her parents remained in Hungary- her mother was sent to Auschwitz and murdered on arrival, while her father survived several camps and ultimately joined his daughter in England after the war, as Soviet rule in Hungary made it impossible for him to work there. Marika later married Martin Ehrenfried ‘Werner’ Eversfield, a racing journalist from Berlin who had escaped along with his father and brother through Czechoslovakia. He came to London in 1944 and became an interrogator at the London Cage (he features in a book of the same name written by Dr Helen Fry). This marriage produced a daughter, Caroline, though the marriage also ended in divorce. Marika’s final marriage was to Joachim Rotter, a refugee from Berlin. Werner and Joachim both died in 1994, and Marika in 2014. The collection was donated by Marika and Werner’s son-in-law Geoffrey Marx. The collection also features copies of correspondence from the family of Eric Marx, who appears to have immigrated to England around 1939, with family members moving to Australia, while his mother remained behind in Cologne.

Acquisition

Donated 11.5.2022

Donor: Geoffrey Marx

Scope and Content

The collection consists of material belonging to the Marx and Eversfield families, the vast majority from Marika Szücs/ Lӧw-Beer/ Eversfield/ Rotter. Includes a large amount of wartime and post-war correspondence between England and Hungary (including letter informing Marika of her mother’s death at Auschwitz), personal and family papers documenting immigration, and collection of Marika’s art, fashion and advertising work.

Conditions Governing Access

Open

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